Word Lists 3

Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's tu……続きを見る

"ACT Prep Flashcard Workbook 5: WORDS COMMONLY CONFUSED" Do you know the difference between "fewer" and "less," when to use "it's" or "its," or how to distinguish between "historical" and "historic"……続きを見る

"GED Prep Flashcard Workbook 11: WORDS COMMONLY CONFUSED" Do you know the difference between "fewer" and "less," when to use "it's" or "its," or how to distinguish between "historical" and "historic……続きを見る

Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of ti……続きを見る

"SAT Prep Flashcard Workbook 4: VOCABULARY-Advanced" 350 words every well-educated person should know. While you may not hear them every day, they can show up on the SAT test, and understanding them……続きを見る

Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies. Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation ……続きを見る

"SAT Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: COLLEGE PREP VOCABULARY" 350 frequently tested SAT words every college freshman should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary! Improve your rea……続きを見る

A delightfully addictive compendium of fascinating word facts that does for the dictionary what Eats, Shoots, and Leaves did for the manual of style With the easy erudition and lively wit that have ……続きを見る

All parents want their children to read well and to succeed–and experts agree that improving literacy begins at birth. Reading aloud to your child, sharing simple games and wordplay, and developing ……続きを見る

"PRAXIS Core Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: VOCABULARY-Advanced: Level 3" 350 words every well-educated person should know. While you may not hear them every day, they can show up on the PRAXIS 1/PPST t……続きを見る

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith……続きを見る

"GRE Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: VOCABULARY WORD ROOTS" A unique collection of 380 essential Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, each with up to ten derivative word examples and definitions. Interpre……続きを見る

"ASVAB Prep Flashcard Workbook 1: ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY" 500 frequently tested ASVAB words every high school student should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary! Improve your……続きを見る

The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use Everyday Phraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. It contains informat……続きを見る

Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and cliches, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to wonderful ……続きを見る

In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of Adam’s apple, nick……続きを見る

Haben Sie sich auch schon gefragt, warum man Eulen nach Athen trägt? Wie es bei Hempels unterm Sofa aussieht? Oder was passiert, wenn man auf zwei oder gar mehreren Hochzeiten tanzt? Erklärungen hie……続きを見る

Textual Explorations General Editors- Mick Short, Lancaster University Elena Semino, Lancaster University The focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, an……続きを見る

Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have never heard before, find out fascinating facts beh……続きを見る

If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line. The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rh……続きを見る

A short and enjoyable study of 120 English words and their pair companions in the Spanish language. These pairs are called cognates. Each English word shows its meaning, an example sentence that con……続きを見る

"PSAT/NMSQT Prep Flashcard Workbook 2: VOCABULARY-Intermediate" 500 frequently tested PSAT/NMSQT words every high school student should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary!……続きを見る

It's a fact that men love lists: with lists, men can find the most interesting information with the least amount of effort. This book contains over 250 lists covering the most important subjects in ……続きを見る

This guide to Scots is a perfect buy for anyone who is intrigued by the expressive Scots language. Besides explaining the meaning of Scottish words and phrases, it also contains features about aspec……続きを見る

From Geronimo! to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés show you interjections like you've never seen them before. Often thought ……続きを見る

Since the fourth century, when Spanish monks first started signing to communicate during their vows of silence, sign language has been used in religious communities of all faiths. Present-day Americ……続きを見る

A charming collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen, and embarrassing misprints, Just My Typo celebrates the awful and the sublime mistakes that riddle our feeble human attempts at commu……続きを見る

How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart. Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It's all in how you acquire the "ten-dollar word……続きを見る

An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian?or antediluvian into plain old old. Attorney James Snyder didn?t set out to write a book about words. But one……続きを見る

From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraord……続きを見る